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Shayna Jacobs / Washington Post:
Federal judge blocks Musk's DOGE from access to Treasury Department material  —  The judge also ordered Musk and his team to “immediately destroy any and all copies of material downloaded from Treasury Department's records and systems, if any.”  —  NEW YORK — A federal judge issued …
Discussion: Townhall and CBS News
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New York Times:
Judge Halts Access to Treasury Payment Systems by Elon Musk's Team  —  The order came in response to a lawsuit filed by 19 attorneys general accusing the president of failing to faithfully execute the nation's laws when he let DOGE comb through federal computer systems.
Alex Galbraith / Salon:
“The greatest threat we've ever faced”: US Treasury division classifies DOGE staff as extreme danger  —  An intelligence team within the department recommended stripping DOGE staffers of their access to data immediately  —  An intelligence team within the U.S. Treasury Department …
Discussion: FedScoop
State of California:
Attorney General Bonta Sues Trump Administration Over DOGE's Unlawful Access to Americans' Personal Information
Discussion: New Jersey Office …
Michael Stratford / Politico:
Treasury elevates Musk ally to lead government payment system
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Christina Jewett / New York Times:
Deep Cuts to Medical Research Funds Could Hobble University Budgets  —  Grants from the National Institutes of Health come with additional money for overhead.  Proposed funding cuts would leave colleges with large budget gaps.  —  The National Institutes of Health announced a new policy Friday …
Discussion: Politico and STAT
Samuel Bagenstos / Inside/Outside:
Indirect Costs and Trump's Attack on Independent Voices
Discussion: STAT and Reuters
Politico:
How spending $153M to pay its bills put USAID in DOGE's crosshairs  —  Aides to the president and Elon Musk suspected USAID officials were trying to go around a funding freeze.  —  Pete Marocco was furious.  —  It was Thursday, Jan. 23, and the Trump administration official had discovered …
Discussion: Twitchy and EADaily
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Declan Walsh / New York Times:   Trump and Musk Bring Vast Aid Machinery to a Halt in Africa
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
New Administration Highlights: Trump Revokes Biden's Security Clearance
New York Times:
Advocate of Jan. 6 Rioters Now Runs Office That Investigated Them  —  Ed Martin, a loyal Trump soldier, oversees the U.S. attorney's office, which is likely to help turn the investigative powers of the government on several of the president's perceived enemies.
Kathryn Watson / CBS News:
Trump fires archivist of the United States, official who oversees government records  —  President Trump has fired Archivist of the United States Colleen J. Shogan, the government official responsible for preserving and providing access to government records.
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Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
Trump Fires National Archives Director Colleen Shogan
Deidre McPhillips / CNN:
Measles outbreak expands in West Texas around county with low vaccination rate  —  A measles outbreak is growing in a rural area of West Texas where vaccination rates are well below the recommended level.  —  In late January, two children in Gaines County were hospitalized for measles.
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Did Trump Quietly Kill a Sensitive Pentagon Probe into Elon Musk?  —  In December, more than a month before Donald Trump took the presidential oath of office, The New York Times reported a blockbuster scoop: Elon Musk and his SpaceX company had repeatedly failed to meet federal reporting requirements designed …
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
Teen on Musk's DOGE Team Graduated from ‘The Com’  —  Wired reported this week that a 19-year-old working for Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was given access to sensitive US government systems even though his past association with cybercrime communities …
Bloomberg:
'It's a Circus': Trump Unleashes Chaos at Key US Science Agency  —  Muddled directives and early-morning emails at NOAA, one of the world's top weather and climate forecasters, have put the agency on edge.  —  The email arrived in US government workers' inboxes just after 1 a.m. East Coast time on Friday …
New York Times:
Trump Says He Will Dismiss Kennedy Center Board Members and Install Himself as Chair  —  The move by the president, whose authority to make the changes was not clear, is the latest attempt to bring a Washington institution under his control.  —  President Trump announced his intention …
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María Luisa Paúl / Washington Post:
Trump halts aid to South Africa, claiming discrimination against Afrikaners  —  His executive order accuses South Africa's government of seizing property from White landowners and calls for their resettlement as “refugees” in the U.S.  —  President Donald Trump on Friday signed …
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez / CBS News:
Trump orders U.S. to prioritize refugee resettlement of South Africans of European descent
Naomi LaChance / Raw Story:
30K tons of food ‘going to waste’ in Houston after Trump halted aid  —  About 30,000 tons of food is stuck at a port in Houston after Trump halted foreign aid for 90 days.  The food, intended to feed people overseas, is stalled at a warehouse,the Houston Chronicle reported.
Casey Michel / The Moscow Times:
Washington Has Given Up the Fight Against Kleptocrats.  Here's What Democracies Should Do  —  On Feb. 6, new U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a series of new directives from President Donald Trump's administration outlining her office's priorities.  Taken together, they represent …
Washington Post:
Kash Patel was paid by Russian filmmaker with Kremlin ties, documents show  —  Patel, President Trump's nominee to be FBI director, was paid $25,000 last year by a film company that has promoted anti-Western views advanced by the Kremlin, documents show.  —  Kash Patel, President Donald Trump's nominee …
Discussion: The Independent
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Mother Jones:   Kash Patel Took $25,000 From Russia-Linked Firm to Appear on an Anti-FBI TV Series
Shawn McCreesh / New York Times:
Will a Time Magazine Cover Drive a Wedge Between Trump and Musk?  —  The cover of the venerable newsweekly, long an object of fixation for the president, put Elon Musk behind the Resolute Desk.  —  The president did not look amused.  He was meeting the Japanese prime minister …
Natalie Allison / Washington Post:
Trump's Gaza proposal strikes fear in his new Arab American supporters  —  Whether Trump can keep these new supporters could have significant implications on key upcoming statewide races, but also on the fragile coalition the party assembled to gain new ground.
Discussion: Raw Story and Politico
Wall Street Journal:
The Mood of the American Consumer is Souring  —  Tariff threats, market turbulence causing jitters early in Trump's second term  —  The Trump bump in consumer confidence is already over.  —  Tariff threats, stock market swings and rapidly reversing executive orders are causing Americans across …
Discussion: The Independent and Raw Story
Abdallah Fayyad / Vox:
The real lesson of the DOGE racist tweets scandal  —  On Thursday, the Wall Street Journal reported that a staffer at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) resigned after the paper inquired about some racist social media posts from an account linked to him.
Aaron Wiener / Washington Post:
Federal workers who took Trump buyout feel fear, regret after judge's order  —  A judge in Massachusetts paused a Feb. 6 deadline to decide on whether to take the buyout, pending a Monday court hearing in a lawsuit seeking to nullify the Trump administration's deferred resignation program.
Discussion: ZeroHedge News and NBC News
Alexander Tin / CBS News:
Trump officials exerting unprecedented control over CDC scientific journal  —  Trump administration political appointees have taken steps in recent weeks to exert unprecedented influence over the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's flagship medical research publication …
Discussion: Wired
Bloomberg:
Musk's DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets  —  Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm's servers.  Now he has access to sensitive government information.  —  Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old member of Elon Musk's squad that's …
John Ismay / New York Times:
Hegseth Uses His First Town Hall to Attack Diversity  —  The defense secretary, speaking to the Pentagon work force, defended his “unconventional approaches” to an audience that included women and people of color.  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave his first public address …
Pew Research Center:
1. Trump's second term: Early ratings and expectations  —  Table of Contents Table of Contents  —  Americans are deeply divided over Donald Trump's plans and the way he is handling his job in the early weeks of his return to the presidency.  —  Overall, 47% of U.S. adults approve …
New York Times:
Now Is Not the Time to Tune Out  —  Don't get distracted.  Don't get overwhelmed.  Don't get paralyzed and pulled into the chaos that President Trump and his allies are purposely creating with the volume and speed of executive orders; the effort to dismantle the federal government …
 
 
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Melissa Goldin / Associated Press:
Claims about USAID funding are spreading online. Many are not based on facts
Discussion: New York Times and Boston Herald
Soumya Karlamangla / New York Times:
Firefighter Hiring Stalls at Federal Agencies After Trump's Freeze
Discussion: Gizmodo
Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Republicans retool their ‘parents’ rights' playbook for the Virginia governor's race
Washington Post:
A sample of the government webpages Trump doesn't want you to see
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Former Spies Warn Congress Over ‘Insidious’ Aim of CIA Buyouts
Allison Walker / International Business Times:
Trump Signs Order to Kill Federal Agency Investigating Tesla
Nick Niedzwiadek / Politico:
Judge denies union demand to block DOGE's access to Labor Department data
Antonio Pequeño IV / Forbes:
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Lorie Konish / CNBC:
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